User-Selected Activity Budgeting with Dynamic Preference and Economic Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional financial planning tools lack the ability to dynamically adjust to current socio-economic conditions and individual preferences, providing generic advice that may not meet specific user needs or goals, such as planning for activities like retirement, house purchase, or vacations.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that allows users to select a target activity, receive and analyze user preferences and economic indicators, generate a preliminary budgetary recommendation, and optimize it based on user input, using a recommendation engine to predict optimal allocations and adapt to changing conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional financial planning tools use static data inputs and historical trends, then they can provide general advice and recommendations, but they lack the ability to adjust dynamically to current socio-economic conditions or unique individual preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to socio-economic conditions and individual preferencesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from static financial planning tools to a dynamic recommendation engine that continuously adapts to changing socio-economic conditions and individual user preferences. The engine processes real-time economic indicators and updates budgetary recommendations dynamically, allowing the system to evolve with changing conditions rather than relying on fixed historical data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by analyzing user interactions with preliminary recommendations and behavioral patterns. This feedback loop enables the recommendation engine to learn from user responses and refine future recommendations, creating a continuous improvement cycle that enhances adaptability to individual preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If pre-determined financial packages are offered by financial institutions, then they provide structured financial planning options, but they lack flexibility and do not consider individual preferences and financial situations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility to individual preferences and financial situationsVSAvoidease of financial planning
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The recommendation engine applies local quality by tailoring financial planning recommendations to each user's specific situation, preferences, and financial context. Instead of applying uniform pre-determined packages, the system customizes budgetary allocations based on individual characteristics, ensuring each user receives personally relevant advice while maintaining operational simplicity through automated processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If a recommendation engine analyzes user preferences and economic indicators to generate personalized recommendations, then it provides optimized budgetary allocations, but it requires processing multiple data sources and user inputs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of budgetary recommendationsVSAvoidcomplexity of data processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The recommendation engine serves multiple functions simultaneously: it collects user preferences, retrieves economic indicators from external sources, analyzes behavioral patterns, generates preliminary recommendations, and refines final recommendations. This multi-functional approach consolidates complex data processing tasks into a single unified system that delivers precise personalized recommendations without requiring multiple separate tools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250238868A1System and method for generating budgetary recommendations for a user-selected target activity
Publication Date: 2025.07.24 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA
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AI summary

A system and method for generating a budgetary recommendation for a user-selected target activity are disclosed. The method includes enabling a user to select a target activity from a plurality of activities. Next, the method includes receiving first information associated with a set of preferences that corresponds to the selected target activity. Next, the method includes retrieving second information associated with the selected target activity and the first information. Next, the method includes analyzing, using a recommendation engine, the first information and the second information to determine a budgetary allocation. Next, the method includes generating a preliminary budgetary recommendation based on the determined budgetary allocation. Next, the method includes rendering, via a display, the preliminary budgetary recommendation to receive a user input. Next, the method includes generating a final budgetary recommendation based on the user input received in response to the preliminary budgetary recommendation.